Essential Question: How can self-reflection affect your sense of identity?
Bellwork
In the model and the scrambled list, identify the appositive phrase. Next, unscramble and write out the sentence parts to imitate the model. Finally, write your own imitation of the model and identify the appositive phrase. The proprietor, a little gray man with an unkempt mustache and watery eyes, leaned on the counter, reading a newspaper.
---John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
a. a tall thin blonde
b. walked down the runway
c. with a long mane and long legs
d. the model
e. eyeing the audience
Read.Think.Talk.
Finish reading excerpt from Like Water for Chocolate, annotating and discussing together as we model close reading.
Discuss
How is this narrator reflecting on her own life? Why do you think the author used the recipe idea to organize the text?
Quick Write: Quick Formative Assessment
Read paragraphs 1-4 of Alexie's essay "Superman and Me." On a half-sheet of paper, draw 2 columns for detail and commentary.
Pick out 2 details from the text that you annotated to write down in the detail column. In the commentary column, explain your thoughts for each detail. What did you write in the margins? What made that detail from the text stick out to you?
Closing Thoughts...
Why should we annotate difficult texts? What other classes should we annotate in?
Topic: Identity
Essential Question: How can self-reflection affect your sense of identity?
Bellwork
In the model and the scrambled list, identify the appositive phrase. Next, unscramble and write out the sentence parts to imitate the model. Finally, write your own imitation of the model and identify the appositive phrase.The proprietor, a little gray man with an unkempt mustache and watery eyes, leaned on the counter, reading a newspaper.
---John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
a. a tall thin blonde
b. walked down the runway
c. with a long mane and long legs
d. the model
e. eyeing the audience
Read.Think.Talk.
Finish reading excerpt from Like Water for Chocolate, annotating and discussing together as we model close reading.Discuss
How is this narrator reflecting on her own life? Why do you think the author used the recipe idea to organize the text?Quick Write: Quick Formative Assessment
Read paragraphs 1-4 of Alexie's essay "Superman and Me."On a half-sheet of paper, draw 2 columns for detail and commentary.
Pick out 2 details from the text that you annotated to write down in the detail column. In the commentary column, explain your thoughts for each detail. What did you write in the margins? What made that detail from the text stick out to you?
Closing Thoughts...
Why should we annotate difficult texts? What other classes should we annotate in?
Homework
Finish reading and annotating Alexie's essay.